Can Quality be Extracted from Quantification of Interactions by NBS?

rarguments, specifications can be provided. People become buried under the overload of materials and duties they can not cope with and frustrations will not decrease compared to the present habitual system, but may even increase. 2. The NBS system is basically a system capable of offering a quantitative data on the publishing affairs and activities of access to and use of the papers included in the database of the network. How come quality out of the quantity? Traditionally, top experts (read: editors and reviewers) dispersed between very many journals with their own traditions and idiosynchrasies have made their evaluation based decisions. This is an Elitarian system combined with diversity and chances for “many tastes.” Citation statistics is essentially based on (i) whether someone has read the paper and/or knows its scientific merits and therefore uses it in his/her own work for substantial reasons and (ii) on scientific-political motivations such as flattery, service to friends. So roughly half of the indices of impact reflect the quality and relevance of the publication. In the new system suggested by Zimmermann et al. (2012) where downloads statistics becomes the main measure of impact the relative role of substantial type of factors may be disproportionately diminished. Compared to a citation (which bears some responsibility of the citing author with regard to what is cited in terms of relevance and quality of the cited work) a download click is much less responsible an action. There are a vast many reasons for downloads besides the paper or an author being of high quality – curiosity, intrigue, habitual knowledge, and routine database-check, size of the scientific “brotherhood” or “alumnicircle” (the larger it is, the more clicks A commentary on